Month: May 2017

With this post we’re starting another series: At the beginning of each month we’re going to give you three projects made by community members to vote on. The vote will run for about a week and then we’re going to announce the project of the month. The winning maker will give you some behind-the-scences information about the project.

on Instagram, leave a comment on the project that you wish to nominate and use the hashtag #ewcpotm (short for “EWC project of the month”).

We’re going to choose from those nominations but we can’t guarantee that any of them will come up in a vote because we have no idea how many projects will be sent in. The projects don’thave to be posted in that particular month.

Congratulations Rob for being featured on the podcast and for an interesting and entertaining interview.

With this post we’re starting a new category “EWC in the wild” which points you to any community members who get featured elsewhere on the web or who meet up in person somewhere. If you come across community members being featured in some form somewhere online, let uns know: Just send an email so we can post it here and get our members the attention they deserve!

Next Saturday, 03.06.2017 at 16:00 h (CET) there will be an Instagram livestream with some updates on the developments that happened during the first couple of days since the launch of the European Woodworking Community. You can ask questions about the community, give us feedback or just hang out with other community members or people interested in our community.

In this post our community member René of Troppys Holzhütte talks (in German) about his woodworking and his background. With this post we’re starting a new series of posts: once a month we’re going to introduce you to a different community member.

The first couple of days have seen our community take off quickly. Three days after we launched, we’re at over sixty members from various European countries: Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Britain, Spain, Finland, Germany and others. This is exactly what we had in mind when we developed the idea of the European Woodworking Community. So thanks to all our new members – you’re all very welcome!

Newsletter

As we’re planning the first steps to develop the community, we set up a newsletter for you to keep up with the posts that will be published in this blog. You can sign up for the newsletter in the sidebar on the right.

What language to use?

We are an international community so English would be the natural language to use in our blog and Instagram posts. But all the founders and many other members are Germans. Most of us can read and understand English without any problems. But writing texts in English is a different story and not all of us feel comfortable enough with English to do that.

We translated all the important texts on the main site so that they are available in both German and English. But translating is a lot of work and not everyone is fluent enough in both languages to do it. If we find the time, we try to provide texts in both languages, but this community – just as woodworking – is our hobby. So time is always limited.

Therefore, some posts will only be available in German while others (like this one) will be only in English. If you speak both languages well and would like to volunteer translating texts, we’d love to hear from you! Just send us an email!

We hope you understand this situation. If you don’t understand the language of a post, you might use translation software. This is not ideal, of course, but it should give you a general idea of what a text is about.

That’s it for the first update. Have a good week and happy woodworking!

After long and extensive preparation by the founders it comes into the open:

The European Woodworking Community is live and online.

It’s a community for all woodworking enthusiasts who share their work in some form or other on the web. It’s about exchanging ideas and questions, sharing in our common hobby and strengthening the spirit of community that exists among web-based woodworkers from all over Europe.